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Leyla Once Again

2020 · 97 min

A quiet, uneasy character study that slowly unsettles you as a son's private surveillance of his mother unravels into something stranger.

Directed by: Barış Hancıoğulları
Genres: Drama
Starring: Meli Bendeli, Ayfer Dönmez, Cem Zeynel Kılıç

Overview: Umut, a strange, introverted, born young man, lives with his mother Leyla in a slum in Istanbul Esenler, and works as an apprentice in an auto repair shop. Realizing that her mother has been acting strangely recently, Umut begins to follow her secretly and learns that Leyla is with a man. The facts about the identity of this man will turn Umut's life upside down ... In the second part of the film, a completely different Umut goes after a completely different Leyla ...

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Directed by: Barış Hancıoğulları
Genres: Drama
Starring: Meli Bendeli, Ayfer Dönmez, Cem Zeynel Kılıç

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
identity
isolation
obsession
betrayal
Places: big city
home
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Barış Hancıoğulları
Written by: Barış Hancıoğulları
Starring: Meli Bendeli, Ayfer Dönmez, Cem Zeynel Kılıç, Sermet Yeşil, Ali Hikmet Kürekçi, Eren Çiğdem, Aysegül Cengiz
Cinematography: Dilşat Canan
Runtime: 97 min
Country: Turkey
Languages: Turkish

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